pound sign

Example Sentences

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"Myself and Clive's family and friends are heartbroken about the loss of him. You can never put a pound sign on anybody's life."

From BBC • May 9, 2023

The Washington state Department of Health instructs people to contact the DOH COVID-19 hotline at 1-800-525-0127 and press the pound sign to report the positive result from an over-the-counter test.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2022

Sure, it’s probably way more than Eric Trump was hoping to reveal when he typed that pound sign, but sometimes your worldview just seeps through.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2018

Last summer, Facebook introduced "hashtags," or clickable keywords with a pound sign that Twitter users often employ to keep track of viral conversations.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2014

The British pound sign cannot be expressed in ASCII, but is very common in the works of English novelists.

From The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 by Tinsley, Jim